Civil LibertiesIn the past, insecurity led many Americans to lash out against people of different
ethnicities. What historical lessons should we bear in mind as we seek to deal
with current threats? How can society best balance a concern with security with
personal freedom and civil liberties.

Media Coverage Over the past six decades, the news media have had to respond to many shattering
events, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the assassination of President John
F. Kennedy, the seizure of American diplomats in Iran, and the explosion of
the space shuttle Challenger. Is the current coverage more or less restrained
than coverage of previous events. Is it fairer or more biased? Is it stirring
or restraining ethnic animosities?

"Movies of the Middle East"
by Janelle Brown
Salon, October 9, 2001http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/10/09/film/index.html
"These films frequently personify an intense anger directed at the United
States . Despite a seemingly relentless struggle with censorship, some
Middle Eastern filmmakers have produced work that addresses -- often directly
-- the issues of politics, war and religion."

Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism:
http://www.state.gov/global/terrorism/
Reports from the U.S. government office responsible for developing, coordinating,
and implementing American counterterrorism policy.

Islamic Studieshttp://www.arches.uga.edu/~godlas/
The academic website of Dr. Alan Godlas, professor of Religion at the University
of Georgia, provides a scholarly overview of Islam and related subjects.

Meeting with the Muj http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/2001/jf01/jf01stern.html
A visit to a radical religious school in Lehore, Pakistan by Jessica Stern,
a lecturer at Harvard UniversityÍs Kennedy School of Government, an adjunct
fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the board of the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

During times of crisis, Americans turn to their president for words of reassurance,
comfort, and resolve. Our president, unlike Britain's prime minister, has multiple
responsibilities: to serve as head of state, commander-in-chief, and the symbolic
leader of our country. A President must not only manage our government, but also
lead and inspire our citizens.

re: constructionshttp://web.mit.edu/cms/reconstructions/A website created by the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT designed
to spark
discussions and reflections about the media's role in covering the events of
11
September 2001 and their aftermath.

Terrorist Attacks 2001 Archivehttp://www.archive.org/
The Internet Archive, in coordination with the Library of Congress, webArchivist.org
and Alexa Internet, have created an archive of information on the terrorist
attacks.

This special briefing from _Foreign
Affairs_ collects the full text of ten previously published articles and thirteen
book reviews that "contribute to an understanding of the tragic attacks
on New York and Washington." The articles range from David Fromkin's 1975
"The Strategy of Terrorism," which gives the history of terrorism
and some governmental strategies for
combatting it, to Richard K. Betts' prescient 1998 "The New Threat of Mass
Destruction," discussing the dangers of terrorist attacks on the US. Other
writers include Ahmed Rashid, Walter Laqueur, and Ashton Carter.